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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 2, 2016

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Liberal Jewish activists enter the Western Wall carrying Torah scrolls on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 (courtesy)

In ‘historic’ first, women pray with Torah scrolls at Western Wall

Scuffles as liberal Jewish leaders join Women of the Wall to demand implementation of compromise plan at holy site

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Jewish leaders from around the world at the Knesset on November 1, 2016. (Nathan Roi/Jewish Agency for Israel)

Netanyahu slams liberal groups for ‘violating’ Western Wall status quo

Clockwise, from top left: Donald Trump; Hillary Clinton; Bernie Sanders; Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. (Getty Images)

Election 2016: The top Jewish moments of a delirious campaign

By Josefin Dolsten

The presidential race has made Jewish history, for reasons both good and bad

American Israelis: Pro-vote group left us without absentee ballots

By JTA

KKK paper tacitly endorses Trump for president

Few Republican Jewish Coalition leaders open wallets for Trump

Illustrative: Donald Trump holds a question-and-answer session with Jewish reporters at his offices at Trump Tower, New York, April 14, 2016. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Judaism’s greatest mystical text ‘predicts Trump victory,’ Israel GOP head reveals

Citing an unnamed ultra-Orthodox expert on the seminal ‘Zohar’ work, Marc Zell says Trump campaign staffers in US were ‘amazed’ at the news

Former US president Bill Clinton speaks at the Peres Academic Center in Rehovot on June 17, 2013 (Photo credit: Flash90)

FBI publishes files from Bill Clinton’s 2001 pardon of Marc Rich

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic nominee’s campaign questions timing of release of documents from long-closed investigation involving Jewish fugitive financier who also held Israeli citizenship

Trump urges early voters with ‘second thoughts’ to recall ballots

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hundreds of US economists warn against voting Trump

With race tightening, Clinton revives Trump’s ‘belittling’ of women

By Jonathan Lemire and Steve Peoples

Khaled Mashaal, political leader of Hamas (left), meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, Egypt, December 21, 2011. (photo credit: AP)

Hamas looks to join PLO, marking major unification step

Head of terror group, which hasn’t renounced violence, renews plea to be folded into Abbas-led Palestinian umbrella organization

A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and members of the Women of the Wall carry Torah scrolls during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Russian PM: US isn’t banana republic, we can’t dictate its election

Palestinian teen jailed for life for murder of Israeli mother of 6; top Trump advisers release detailed Israel plan; Obama raps FBI for ‘innuendo’ in Clinton probe

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath holding her 'Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary.' (The Jewish Standard)

Vi zogt men oyf Yiddish?

New dictionary updates Yiddish for era of transgender, tablets and tweets

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Need a new pair of ‘fingershikh’? Building on her Yiddish linguist father’s corpus, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath publishes the first English-Yiddish resource guide in four decades

Since when is JFNA OK with settlements?

Federation’s visits to the West Bank beg explanation — and the parity of exposure to the fight against occupation

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Torah: The unavoidable, disturbing text

Daring biblical interpretation keeps Jewish heritage relevant for every generation, even a secular one

From left, Doug Mandel, Iris Mandel and Mitch Mandel at their house in the West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron, Oct. 28, 2016. (JTA/Andrew Tobin)

World Series ignites old passions among West Bank’s American Jews

By Andrew Tobin

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan at the scene of a Jerusalem terror attack, October 9, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s minister for police: Palestinians trying to ‘politicize’ Interpol

By Raoul Wootliff

Jerusalem says PA could leak sensitive intel to terror groups if it wins bid to join the international police organization

Italian President Sergio Mattarella seen with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 1, 2016. Photo by Flash90

Peace ‘a strategic goal’ of Palestinians, says Abbas

Palestinian leader ‘wants to emphasize respect for Judaism,’ backs keeping Jerusalem open to all monotheistic faiths

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

IDF judge frees UK suspect over ‘painful’ interrogration

Justice slams ‘shackling, threats and flagrant exploitation’ used by Shin Bet to extract ‘inadmissible’ confession

V15 activists convene at their campaign offices in Jerusalem on February 09, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

In shadow of ugly US election, Israel’s NGO finance bill to get makeover

By Marissa Newman

Likud MK warns that without law to cap donations for political bodies, Israel’s next campaigns will resemble those of America

Illustrative: Students in an IDF programming course. (Courtesy)

Israel’s ‘GI Bill’ expands to include newly released combat soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot’s plan to pay veterans’ tuition fees kicks off with start of higher education’s school year

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a memorial for slain Cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 1, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Rape claims take center stage at memorials for slain minister Ze’evi

Netanyahu, Rivlin say Israel should honor late politician and general’s legacy, despite allegations by female subordinates

Leah Moz, Associate Director for Dialogue and Inclusion at Hillel International (left), and Sheila Katz, Vice President for Social Entrepreneurship at Hillel International, at a Title IX rally in Washington, DC. (Courtesy Hillel International)

White House partners with Hillel to fight campus sexual assault

By Cathryn J. Prince

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri waves to journalists, shown before his election upon his arrival to the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, October 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

After Aoun deal, Lebanon’s two major parties back Hariri for PM

By AP and ToI Staff

Sunni leader was promised prime minister’s job in return for supporting ex-general and Hezbollah ally as president

Protesters wave the Amazigh (Berber) flag as they shout slogans in the northern city of Al Hoceima on October 30, 2016, following the death of fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri, who was crushed to death on October 28 in a rubbish truck in Al Hoceima. (AFP PHOTO/FADEL SENNA)

Echoes of Tunisia in Morocco as protests continue

11 arrested for death of fish seller that sparked nationwide outrage over economic neglect and perceived government indifference

Iraqi forces wait next to their vehicles in the al-Shura area, south of Mosul, October 28, 2016. (AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

On Mosul’s southern front, fight against IS a slow grind

By SUSANNAH GEORGE

Jihadists leave small pockets of fighters in the path of advancing Iraqi army, take civilians captive as human shields

The Pause box, designed to entice you to put your phone away for a little while (Courtesy)

Take a Pause and lock up phone, Israeli startup says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sleek box blocks signals in bid to encourage phone-free routines, improve quality of life

Illustrative: Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

BDS spurs anti-Semitism on campuses, says Brandeis study

By JTA

Researchers find strong predictor of hostile environment toward Jews and Israel is presence of active Students for Justice in Palestine groups

(Top left, clockwise, marijuana photo: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images; prison photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; cigarettes photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images; guns photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

The Jewish vote: Pot, guns, justice and other ballot measures worth noting

Amid the cacophony of calls in the presidential campaign to build walls, end sexual assault, and ‘lock her up’ are a host of issues of compelling Jewish interest

US Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla. 23rd District) Dec. 19, 2015. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images via JTA)

Clinton team planned to oust DNC chair last year — WikiLeaks

By AP and ToI Staff

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Pro-Palestinian students at University College London disrupt an Israel advocacy event on campus on October 28, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

BDS is a blow to academic freedom

By Azriel Genack and Fred Naider

Screen capture of video showing yobs shooting a firework at a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls in London, October 21, 2016. (YouTube/SWNS TV)

London ruffians injure Jewish girl, 8, in firecracker attack

By Stuart Winer

A Trump supporter chants 'Jew S.A.' at a rally for the Republican nominee in Phoenix, Arizona on October 29, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Lost in translationTrump fan’s ‘Jew S. A.’ call was just ‘USA with Latino accent’

By JTA

Rare Uzbek pigeons crammed into shoeboxes that were discovered at Ben Gurion Airport in a suitcase belonging to a traveler returning from Germany. (Agriculture Ministry)

Flight riskIsraeli nabbed trying to smuggle rare birds into country

Mel Gibson arrives ahead of the Australian premiere of Hacksaw Ridge at State Theatre on October 16, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images via JTA)

Mad MelMel Gibson: ‘Unfair’ people aren’t over anti-Semitic tirade

By Josefin Dolsten

An ultra-Orthodox man is brought to court after being arrested on charges of drugging and raping his daughter, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Father confesses to drugging, raping teenage daughter

By Stuart Winer

Steve Goodman, shown in 1983, died in 1984. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Jewish folk singer who gave Chicago Cubs fans 2 anthems

By Gabe Friedman

Israeli soccer coach Avram Grant in 2009 (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Egypt foils plot to attack Ghana’s Israeli soccer coach

Former energy minister and Tzomet/Yiud Knesset member Gonen Segev, who was convicted in 2005 of drug smuggling, forgery and fraud. (Saar Yaakov/GPO)

Convicted ex-minister seeks to return to Israel as doctor

Google taps Israeli exec as new VP

Illustrative photo of the Route 6 toll road, also known as the Trans-Israel Highway, March 30 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

2 killed as car smashes into truck on Route 6

By Stuart Winer

Ari Shavit at the UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center For Israel Studies 5th Annual Gala at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on May 5, 2015. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images via JTA)

HBO mum on status of Ari Shavit book documentary

By JTA

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